Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution

The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution

Author: Pierre Baldi (IDLAB, Inc.)
ISBN: 9780262523349
Format: Paperback
$47.52

An exploration of the far-reaching scientific and social changes made possible by advances in molecular biotechnology....  Read More >>

Running Out of Control: Dilemmas of Globalization

Running Out of Control: Dilemmas of Globalization

Author: Alan Hedley
ISBN: 9781565491519
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Globalization is reducing our ability to control our life in an increasingly interconnected world. Employing a systems-theory...  Read More >>

Running Out of Control: Dilemmas of Globalization

Running Out of Control: Dilemmas of Globalization

Author: Alan Hedley
ISBN: 9781565491526
Format: Hardback
$83.95

Globalization is reducing our ability to control our life in an increasingly interconnected world. Employing a systems-theory...  Read More >>

Life Script Us Edition

Life Script Us Edition

Author: WADE NICHOLAS
ISBN: 9780743223188
Format: Paperback
$31.68

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for...  Read More >>

Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture

Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture

Author: Geert Lovink ,  Timothy Druckrey
ISBN: 9780262122498
Format: Hardback
$87.12

Net criticism that establishes the principles and foundation for a collaborative, global new media culture.  Read More >>

Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge and Technology Transfer

Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge...

Author: M. de Laet
ISBN: 9780762308903
Format: Hardback
$277.95

A commentary on the practice of knowledge and technology transfer and the practice of observation and intervention,...  Read More >>

Display Interfaces: Fundamentals and Standards

Display Interfaces: Fundamentals and Standards

Author: Robert L. Myers (Hewlett-Packard Company, USA)
ISBN: 9780471499466
Format: Hardback
$251.95

Focusing on the development of industry standards, this work is an exposition of display systems and applications...  Read More >>

Practising Safe Hypnosis: A Risk Management Guide

Practising Safe Hypnosis: A Risk Management Guide

Author: Roger Hambleton
ISBN: 9781899836949
Format: Hardback
$77.99

This unique book comprehensively explores the damage that can be caused by the misapplication of hypnotic techniques...  Read More >>

Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine?

Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of...

Author: Simon Cooper
ISBN: 9780415261609
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This volume theorizes the ambivalence most of us register towards technological progress. The author explores the...  Read More >>

Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed

Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed

Author: Adrian Mackenzie
ISBN: 9780826458834
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Why does technological speed seem to exceed the speed of cultural or natural processes? This book explores the nature...  Read More >>

Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World

Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics,...

Author: Douglas Mulhall
ISBN: 9781573929929
Format: Hardback
$52.99

What will happen to our jobs, health care, and investments when the molecular revolution hits? How might artificial...  Read More >>

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts...

Author: Evan M. Glazer ,  John W. McConnell
ISBN: 9780313361234
Format: Paperback
$33.00

This volume answers the question, what does maths have to do with real life? Up to 50 maths concepts are presented...  Read More >>

The Economic and Social Impacts of e-Commerce

The Economic and Social Impacts of e-Commerce

Author: Sam Lubbe (Professor, Cape Technikon, South Africa) ,  Joanna Maria Van Heerden
ISBN: 9781591400431
Format: Hardback
$171.95

E-commerce has brought about many changes in organizations and has had significant impacts on the quality of life...  Read More >>

Redesigning Human Systems

Redesigning Human Systems

Author: Enid Mumford
ISBN: 9781591401186
Format: Hardback
$171.95

This text should be of interest to those responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and...  Read More >>

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts...

Author: Evan M. Glazer ,  John W. McConnell
ISBN: 9780313319983
Format: Hardback
$110.00

This volume answers the question, what does maths have to do with real life? Up to 50 maths concepts are presented...  Read More >>

The Changing Landscape in Easter Europe: A Personal Perspective on Philanthropy and Technology Transfer

The Changing Landscape in Easter Europe: A Personal...

Author: Richard E. Quandt (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Princeton University, USA)
ISBN: 9780195146691
Format: Hardback
$141.95

"This book shows the effect philanthropy can have in transferring technology in transitional societies that are...  Read More >>

Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews

Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews

Author: Jacques Derrida (Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) ,  Bernard Stiegler (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris)
ISBN: 9780745620374
Format: Paperback
$32.95

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on...  Read More >>

Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews

Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews

Author: Jacques Derrida (Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) ,  Bernard Stiegler (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris)
ISBN: 9780745620367
Format: Hardback
$103.95

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on...  Read More >>

Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business

Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of...

Author: Thomas H. Davenport ,  John C. Beck
ISBN: 9781578518715
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Welcome to the attention economy, in which the new scarcest resource isn't ideas or talent, but attention itself....  Read More >>

Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?

Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?

Author: Mary Warnock
ISBN: 9780192803344
Format: Hardback
$44.95

Mary Warnock looks at the issues underlying the use of new reproductive technologies. She begins by analysing what...  Read More >>

The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future

The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental,...

Author: Thomas Homer-Dixon
ISBN: 9780375713286
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"With ""The Ingenuity Gap, "" renowned political scientist Homer-Dixon offers a riveting look at a troubled world...  Read More >>

Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries

Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries...

Author: Adam Brate
ISBN: 9781587991035
Format: Hardback
$102.83

Over the past 50 years, the information revolution has transformed intimidating digital computers into household...  Read More >>

Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables...

Author: Michael Joyce ,  Helene Cixous
ISBN: 9780791451564
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.  Read More >>

Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology

Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology...

Author: Robert Evenson (Yale University, USA) ,  Vittorio Santaniello (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9780851996189
Format: Hardback
$377.39

There are currently many controversial socioeconomic issues concerned with the development and implementation of...  Read More >>

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